Narrower Military Justice Reform Among Changes that Survive Defense Bill Compromise A major overhaul of the military justice system has been scuttled from a defense policy bill in favor of narrower approach...
Lawmakers Are Worried a Major Military Justice Overhaul Is Going to Get Stopped At issue is a provision in the Senate version of the NDAA that would take the decision to prosecute most major crimes away...
Military Failing to Provide Required Help for Victims of Sexual Assault and Abuse, Watchdog Finds The Air Force in particular did not assign prosecutors specially trained to handle those crimes in 94% of sample cases from...
Military's Work on Sexual Assault Might Help with Fighting Extremists, Report Suggests As the military tackles the problem of extremism in its ranks, one team of researchers suggests thinking about the problem in...
Senators Say They Won't Wait 9 Years for Pentagon to Make Planned Sexual Assault Reforms Eight senators want reforms to combat military sexual assault to happen in six months, they wrote in a letter to Defense...
Military Would Get Boost for Sexual Assault Reform and Pacific Capabilities in Senate Budget Bill The spending bill unveiled by the Senate Appropriations Committee would give the Pentagon $725.8 billion for fiscal year 2022...
Army Unveils New Centers for Sex Assault Response After Vanessa Guillén Murder The program aims to centralize a variety of resources for victims, including legal support, investigations and medical...
Coast Guardsman Sues Claiming Retaliation for Filing Sex Assault Report at Academy Boatswain's Mate 3rd Class Joshua Roh claims he was not allowed to graduate and was retaliated against for reporting an...
Pentagon's First Wave of Sexual Assault Reforms Will Take 6 Years to Complete The newly unveiled plans would create a full-time and specialized workforce inside the military focused on preventing sexual...
No Charges for National Guard Mishandled Sex Assault Cases The Wisconsin Department of Justice says prosecutors have not filed criminal charges for about 30 sexual assault cases...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...